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Amazon has revealed is newest iteration on the Echo Dot, once a puck-shaped companion to the larger Echo smart speaker line and now a spherical smart speaker. The announcement was made during Amazon’s annual Alexa-themed hardware event live streamed on Thursday afternoon.
This is technically the fourth-generation Dot, as last year’s iteration added only an LED display for showing the time, temperature, and other minor information through the fabric covering of the speaker. The big standout feature this time, however, is a redesign of the entire Echo lineup, turning the puck and cylinder designs of the prior models into small and large orbs with the now-standard fabric covering Amazon began introducing in its later Echo models.